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Predicting Party Sizes
The 2007 Johan Skytte Prize Lecture
Author(s) -
Taagepera Rein
Publication year - 2009
Publication title -
scandinavian political studies
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.65
H-Index - 41
eISSN - 1467-9477
pISSN - 0080-6757
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-9477.2009.00234.x
Subject(s) - democracy , foundation (evidence) , function (biology) , political science , sociology , law , politics , evolutionary biology , biology
The Skytte Foundation states that I was awarded the Skytte Prize 2008 for ‘profound analysis of the function of electoral systems in representative democracy’. What does this mean? As examples, I would highlight three relationships that qualify as laws in the strongest scientific sense. They do so because they offer a logically supported model as well as agreement with data, which gives them broad predictive ability.